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Off the Menu: Bomboloni

Hiroko Masuike for The New York TimesBomboloni with raspberry and vanilla cream fillings.

The stars at David Ruggerio’s latest entry on Columbus Avenue, opening on March 17, are Italian filled doughnuts called bomboloni.

They are usually the size of a golf ball or a little larger, at least that’s the way they’ve always been served at Le Cirque. But here they are very substantial puffy pillows, more tennis ball than golf ball. The bright shop offers a dozen fillings in addition to plan custard, $1 each or six for $5.

Panini, soup, hot and cold coffee drinks including flavored lattes, and gelati in fewer flavors than the bomboloni round out the menu.

Its opening was set back nearly a year because of delayed construction and some building violations from the previous tenant. The result was one of those plywooded storefronts that seemed as though it would never open.

Mr. Ruggerio is also an owner of Lansky’s Old World Deli to the north, and Sushi a Go-Go near Lincoln Center.